• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Well, It Ain't Baja, And It Ain't Dakar...

WoodsChick

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Well, it ain't Baja, and it ain't Dakar...but there was some sand riding involved:)

Eric and I spent a few days riding out of Eureka over the New Year's weekend. We stayed in a really nice hotel that had one of these in the room...

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And it had a great view of Humboldt Bay off the balcony...

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It's a wonder we ever managed to leave the room :)


Anyway, we had a great time cruising around the north coast. This sand track was a total blast, even though we were both on street tires...

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You can see my footprints where I was dabbing to stay upright...

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Oops...the sand was kinda soft...

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We rode the Big Foot Highway through the Hoopa Indian Reservation and crossed the Klamath River in the tiny townlet of Weitchpec...

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We turned off the highway and headed northwest on some super-tasty SM-grade pavement that followed the Klamath River for a few miles. We found ourselves climbing up a ridge on a decent dirt road. It was really misty and wet, and we were doing some pretty good slippin' and slidin' in the dirt. Didn't take too many photos of this section as it was pretty wet (and cold) and I didn't want my funky little camera getting any funkier than it already is.

We emerged from the heavy fog and found ourselves at the eastern border of Redwood National Park. Can my Husky be considered a loaded weapon?

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Looking back at the ridge we had just ridden...

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Came across a herd of elk. I whipped out my binoculars (I'm a bird nerd and never leave home without them) and counted 50 of `em...

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Um, if this is Redwood National Park then where are all the redwoods?

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We rode through some great redwoods and dropped south on the coast. We made it back to town in time to hit the local grocery store for fresh crab and french bread for dinner...yum!


My Husky 610 looks like a TTR125 next to Eric's behemoth KTM LC4 640e...

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We hit another rideable beach on the way home but we were in the van all loaded up so no riding...

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The driftwood is huge in this area...

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Well, that's all, folks. We had such a great time we're going back for Valentine's Day...only this time we'll be on knobbies :D





WoodsChick
 
Another cool adventure story. Thx Woodsie.:thumbsup:
Was it very cold or did you guys hit any rain. Those tires look a lot better then your other ones you had on your 610. Maybe just not as good in the sand.
The picture of your bike laying on its side. :lol::lol: I can hear you now "Oh Eric stand beside my bike I want to get a picture of it for C/H...
Ok Thx.. Oh would you be a dear and pick it up for me while your there.":D

Just fun'n with ya. Sure wish we could join you guys

Any more pics?

:cheers:
 
HuskyDude;74813 said:
Another cool adventure story. Thx Woodsie.:thumbsup:

The pleasure was all mine :thumbsup:

Was it very cold or did you guys hit any rain.

Yeah, it was cold and rainy and damp the entire time. We had planned on riding up Friday morning but it was pouring so we took the van with the bikes on the trailer. The photos of the bikes in the parking lot were taken about 7am and it was 38 degrees out. 38 degrees and damp...

Those tires look a lot better then your other ones you had on your 610. Maybe just not as good in the sand.

Uh, no...not good in the sand at all:lol: The front was the MT60...super good on pavement in the rain. The rear is a Shinko dualsporty thing...not so great anywhere but super-cheap and long-wearing. As long as the front sticks I'm cool.


The picture of your bike laying on its side. :lol::lol: I can hear you now "Oh Eric stand beside my bike I want to get a picture of it for C/H...
Ok Thx.. Oh would you be a dear and pick it up for me while your there.":D

:lol: I was walking away when it fell over. Eric was telling me to put the damned camera away and help him pick it up. I did exactly that...after getting the shot :D

Just fun'n with ya. Sure wish we could join you guys

Well, we sure manage to have a good time! You're welcome to join us anytime you can make it down this way:)

Any more pics?

Nope...not of this trip. There will be some from the Valentine's trip, though.
:cheers:
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WoodsChick
 
I always enjoy your pictorial essays********************************************************************************!! Hopefully one day my group will make it out west. Anyway, keep the travelogue coming. Regards, John
 
Hey Chick****************************************.... Great report.... Great pics..... Nice little change of pace. The Hotel????? My kind of camping!!! Thanks for sharing...
 
Cool report Woodschick.. I had no idea there was that kinda riding around there by the few times I drove through Eureka. I'm almost as surprised that you didn't immediately use the "glove trick" when you stopped on the sand.. But I guess the beautiful beach and waves distracted you for a minute.. :D happy riding.. :)
 
Dirtdame;74833 said:
Glad you didn't come across any of their tumbleweeds.:eek:
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I know! Crazy, huh? It was a huge redwood. The grain inside it was still beautiful. Should have taken a photo of it...

Coffee;74841 said:
In your capable hands? Yes! :thumbsup:



Looks like another nice trip you had :)

Even your bikes looked like a cute couple.

:cheers:
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Awww...how cute :p

Yeah, it was a nice trip. Something a little different for us, for sure.


Motosportz;75142 said:
Good stuff. BTW the redwoods are further west :D
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Thanks, Mr. Smarta$$ :lol: I have a feeling you and I would get along great :D

Stroker Ace;75285 said:
Hey Chick****************************************.... Great report.... Great pics..... Nice little change of pace. The Hotel????? My kind of camping!!! Thanks for sharing...
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Hey, Mr. Ace! Change of pace is right. Can't remember the last time we stayed in a hotel other than our Pleasure Palace van:lol: Oh, wait! Baja last February! I told Eric we need to get one of those portable hot tubs so we can go camping at places that don't have hot springs :thumbsup:

LRPct;75296 said:
Cool report Woodschick.. I had no idea there was that kinda riding around there by the few times I drove through Eureka. I'm almost as surprised that you didn't immediately use the "glove trick" when you stopped on the sand.. But I guess the beautiful beach and waves distracted you for a minute.. :D happy riding.. :)
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Hey, my gloves...and everything else...were already filled with sand by the time I made it to the actual beach so I guess I should have thrown one down :busted: The waves were rockin' pretty good. There were all kinds of weather warnings everywhere, and the TV kept showing that Emergency Broadcasting System thing where the TV beeps real loud to get your attention and then the high surf warning would crawl across the screen. Lots of sand to play on there, totally killer SM-quality roads, lots of dirt stuff, some of the best sportbike roads in the west (kinda boring on a 600cc single, though) and beautiful views in every direction. Not a lot of people up there, either:applause: My kind of stuff!


Glad y'all enjoyed the photos and stuff :)




WoodsChick
 
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